Apparatus and method for displaying computer health index

• US 10,169,590 B2
• Filed: 04/21/2017
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Qihu Technology Co. Ltd. (360 Security Technology, Inc.)
• Inventors: Xiang, Ming, Ou, Sheng, Wang, Ruiqi, Chen, Hao, Shi, Shengyi, Wu, Jianhua, Gao, Rixin
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Phy Anh
• Application Number:
  US15/493,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20170228545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/57 Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates or assessing vulnerabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/577 Assessing vulnerabilities and evaluating computer system security
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/74 operating in dual or compartmented mode, i.e. at least one secure mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/88 Monitoring involving counting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/034 Test or assess a computer or a system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2105 Dual mode as a secondary aspect

Abstract

The disclosure discloses an apparatus for displaying a computer health index comprising: a memory having instructions stored thereon; a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: calculating at least one health sub-index, and calculating the computer health index based on the at least one health sub-index, wherein each health sub-index is associated with at least one computer state, and each health sub-index reflects a health degree of an associated computer state; and performing simple index display to display a small icon reflecting a value of the computer health index in a simple index display area.

Claims

1. An apparatus for displaying a computer health index, comprising:

a memory having instructions stored thereon;

a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising;

calculating at least one health sub-index and calculating the computer health index based on the at least one health sub-index, wherein each of the at least one health sub-index is associated with at least one computer state, and each of the at least one health sub-index reflects a health degree of an associated computer state;

performing simple index display in a specific area on a desktop to display a first icon reflecting a value of the computer health index;

wherein the first icon displayed by the simple index display is a first sphere, the first sphere changes its shape with the value of the computer health index, a color filled the first sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index, and when the value of the computer health index is 100%, the first icon displayed by the simple index display becomes a fixed icon;

triggering by a user, the specific area on the desktop to display a detailed index display area, the detailed index display area containing;

a second icon reflecting the value of the computer health index, the second icon is a second sphere and is larger than the first icon, and a color filled the second sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index;

information of the computer health index and information of each of the at least one health sub-index;

a computer state setting trigger area for receiving at least one trigger command from the user when the user clicks on the computer state setting trigger area; and

updating the first and second icons to reflect the at least one trigger command received from the user.

2. The apparatus for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 1, wherein the detailed index display area comprises information of each of the at least one computer state associated with each of the at least one health sub-index and information of a value of each of the at least one health sub-index.

3. The apparatus for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one computer state comprises at least one of a computer security protection state, a computer performance state, and a computer cleanup state.

4. The apparatus for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer health index is calculated by performing weighted summation of the at least one health sub-index.

5. The apparatus for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a close instruction of a user to close contents displayed by the simple index display.

6. The apparatus for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 1, wherein the simple index display further displays a detailed display trigger area for receiving a trigger command of a user;

and the detailed display trigger area of the simple index display is triggered when a user clicks on the detailed display trigger area.

7. A method for displaying a computer health index, comprising:

calculating, by at least one processor, at least one health sub-index and the computer health index based on the at least one health sub-index, wherein each of the at least one health sub-index is associated with at least one computer state, and each of the at least one health sub-index reflects a health degree of an associated computer state;

performing, by the at least one processor, simple index display in a specific area on a desktop to display a first icon reflecting a value of the computer health index, wherein the first icon displayed by the simple index display is a first sphere, the first sphere changes its shape with the value of the computer health index, a color filled the first sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index, and when the value of the computer health index is 100%, the first icon displayed by the simple index display becomes a fixed icon;

triggering by a user, the specific area on the desktop to display a detailed index display area, the detailed index display area containing;

a second icon reflecting the value of the computer health index, the second icon is a second sphere and is larger than the first icon, and a color filled the second sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index;

information of the computer health index and information of each of the at least one health sub-index;

a computer state setting trigger area for receiving at least one trigger command from the user when the user clicks on the computer state setting trigger area; and

updating the first and second icons to reflect the at least one trigger command received from the user.

8. The method for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 7, wherein:

the detailed index display area comprises information of each of the at least one computer state associated with each of the at least one health sub-index and information of a value of each of the at least one health sub-index.

9. The method for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 7, wherein the at least one computer state comprises at least one of a computer security protection state, a computer performance state, and a computer cleanup state.

10. The method for displaying the computer health index as claimed in claim 7, wherein the computer health index is calculated by performing weighted summation of the at least one health sub-index.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for displaying a computer health index, the operations comprising:

calculating at least one health sub-index and calculating the computer health index based on the at least one health sub-index, wherein each of the at least one health sub-index is associated with at least one computer state, and each of the at least one health sub-index reflects a health degree of an associated computer state;

performing simple index display in a specific area on a desktop to display a first icon reflecting a value of the computer health index, wherein the first icon displayed by the simple index display is a first sphere, the first sphere changes its shape with the value of the computer health index, a color filled the first sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index, and when the value of the computer health index is 100%, the first icon displayed by the simple index display becomes a fixed icon;

triggering by a user, the specific area on the desktop to display a detailed index display area, the detailed index display area containing;

a second icon reflecting the value of the computer health index, the second icon is a second sphere and is larger than the first icon, and a color filled the second sphere changes from red to green or vice versa based on the value of the computer health index;

information of the computer health index and information of each of the at least one health sub-index;

a computer state setting trigger area for receiving at least one trigger command from the user when the user clicks on the computer state setting trigger area; and

updating the first and second icons to reflect the at least one trigger command received from the user.